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N E W B E R G .....................,O R E G O N
NEWS OFTBE WEEN
I l i Coode sud Form hr Ou
Buy leaders.
A Rooumo o f M m Lass Important but
Losa Interesting Evsnts
of tho Past Week.
T he pope will create ten new car­
dinals next fall.
The French governm ent is relent­
less in its tight against labor rioters.
An im mense power has been gained
by H arrim an through his alliance with
Gould.
Roosevelt has reinstated a num ber
of W est Point hazers to be disciplined
by the faculty.
T he sultan has appeared on the
stree ts unattended for the first time
during his reign.
C astro has dism issed all D utch con­
suls and vice-consuls in Venezuela
and dem ands apology for insults.
F. D. Spaulding, a w ealthy auto­
m obile m anufacturer of San F ran-
cisco, perished in the Yuma desert.
Suit has been com m enced against
th e Cleveland T raction com pany for
violating its ch arter granted by the
city.
Samuel E. Moffat, an editorial
w riter on C ollier’s magazine, is dead.
H e was a nephew of Sam uel Clemens
(M ark T w ain).
O ne m iner was killed and tw o fa­
tally injured in an explosion of gas
in a coal mine near Scranton, Pa. A
num ber of men were slightly hurl.
Bwyan is busy on his speech of ac­
ceptance.
H o t w eather set fire to a great coal
pile at Reno, Nev.
Officials of the Philippine railroad
are m aking arrangem ents to ex ­
tend it.
Dism issals of consuls may cause a
quarrel betw een the U nited S tates and
H onduras.
R eports are being received at
Republican headquarters of babies
nam ed after Taft.
Gould has got m oney from H a rri­
man to pay his railroad debts, and lost
control of the W heeling road.
M. R. P reston will not accept the
Socialist nom ination for president,
and A ugust Gillhaus has been named.
Panam a is afraid the U nited States
w ants to annex the country and
R oosevelt has sent a reassuring m es­
sage.
E astern railroads have begun an at
tack on a law passed by the last con­
g ress lim iting the hours of continuous
service o f em ployes.
T he N orthw estern road has been
buying cars for the rush when the
crops begin to move and expects to
have use for every piece of rolling
stock.
T h ere is som e talk of C ortelyou
ru n ning for governor of New York.
T h e international peace congress at
L ondon is supported by the king and
cabinet.
Curacoa has sent back sugar from
V enezuela and will use none of Cas­
tro ’s m erchandise.
Gould has raised needed m oney to
pay off his railroad indebtedness w ith­
out surrendering control.
T he Am erican car in the New York-
to -P aris race has arrived at Paris,
w here it received a great ovation.
T he cashier of a Kenosha, Wis.,
bank stole about $8.000 and gives as
his excuse a desire to get m arried.
D etective B urns has been sum ­
m oned to answ er to a charge of con­
tem pt in connection with the Ruef
trials.
T urkish L iberals are not yet satis­
fied w ith the sultan’s concessions
T h ey w ant corrupt officials removed.
S trikers at Vigneux, France, are
fighting with soldiers.
T he cashier of a Seattle national
bank had his salary raised because of
fidelity to the institution. L ater it
was discovered th at during the past
seven o r eight years he has stolen
nearly $50,000.
' TThe steel trust reports an improving
business.
The typhoon 'a t Hongkong is known
to have cost over 300 lives.
The Turkish people will call for a
clean sweep of corrupt officials.
The work on the new Franco-Ameri-
ean tariff treaty is proceeding rapidly.
Gould admits he would welcome Har-
riman’s help in running his railroads.
A young negro has been burned at
the stake in Texas for an assault on a
white girl.
Messages from the battleship fleet
indicate that it is having an easy trip
and is over 1,200 miles from Honolulu.
The railroads have been given more
time to reduce lumber rates on condi­
tion they do not enjoin the Interstate
Commerce commission.
Taft has been. formally notified of
his nomination.
In his speech of ac­
ceptance he said, that, if elected, he
would take Roosevelt’s policies as his
guide.
Four nuggets weighing about half a
pound each and worth $600, were
found in a fashionable residence dis­
trict of Los Angeles while workmen
were excavating.
M A N Y F A M IL IE S S E P A R A T E D .
H E A D Y FO R F IG H T .
Property Loss at Fgrnie Not Less
Than S 2 ,500,000.
Stannard May Not be Able to Slip
Out of Landis’ Decision.
Spokane, Wash., Aug. 4.— A special
from Fernie, B. C., to the Spokesman-
Review, says:
It is feared that the loss of life will
reach beyond 100, but there are so
many living people without homes or
shelter or food to be looked after that
up to the present no effort has been
made to ascertain the number of those
who lost their lives.
In the district swept by the flames
there is estimated to have been some
7.000 people. Two thousand of these
people have been sent west to Cran-
brook and Elko, some 1,500 fled from
the flames to the northward and reach­
ed Hosmer and other places along the
line.
The Great Northern train took all
the people it could carry up the line,
fighting its way through sheets of
flames before reaching a place of
safety.
Scores of families were separated,
husbands not knowing where their
wives and children were, and in some
instances it was ascertained this morn­
ing that members of the same family
were in Cranbrook, Fernie and Hos­
mer.
The lowest estimates of the amount
of the loss is placed at $2,600,000, and
as nearly as can be ascertained the in­
surance carried will amount to some­
thing like $1,500,000. Of the 7,000
people who had been housed yesterday,
3.000 have been taken away. I t is es­
timated by the committee appointed
that there will be 3,500 who will have
to be furnished with temporary shelter
and food.
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Chicago, Aug. 3.—U nited States At­
torney Sims and Spécial Consul K el­
logg and W ilkerson to Jav drafted a
petition to the U nited States circuit
court for a rehearing of the Standard
Oil case, in which the appellate court
recently reversed Judge Landis.
*■ Judge Grosscup ana his associates
will be asked to reverse them selves
on the ground that they erred in de­
claring that Judge Landis erred. The
petition will aver that the circu it
court m isinterpreted th e testim ony,
m isread Judge L andis’ obiter dictum
and did not understand the legal
prem ises oh which he based his im ­
p o rtan t decision.
T he three points raised by the court
will be met squarely. T he first is
that Judge Landis attem ipl
pted to im-
pose a fir
fine upon the New Jcrse
5CV
Oil
com pany for the of-
Oil compa
ü standard
f
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fenses of the Indiana corporation.
T his is to be flatly denied and the
record to be cited to confirm the
claim th at the court did not read
the decision of the lower court as it
applied to the evidence.
T he second point, th at the whole
offenses were in settlem ents and not
in each shipm ent, and th at ignorance
of existing rates excused the accept­
ance of rebates, will be respectfully
characterized as m isapplication of the
law and a ruling co n trary to its
known maxims.
T he third point, that the fine of $29.-
240,000 is excessive and confiscatory,
is to be met by the contention that
the corporation is a chronic offender
and gained m any tim es the am ount of
the fine by alleged rebating m ethods.
The financial statem ents of the com ­
pany, showing net gains of m ore
than $50,000,000 since the rebating be­
gan, the governm ent regards as elo­
quent argum ents.
D E A TH L IS T GROW S.
Seventy-Four Said to Have Perished
in Destruction of Fernie.
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Aug. 4. —As a
result of bush fires the town of Fernie,
B. C., is wiped off the map as a child
cleans a slate. Michel, 14 miles dis­
tant, is in flames and the fate of Hos­
mer and Sparwood, intervening towns,
is in doubt, they being cut off from
communication.
Over 100 lives 'are known to have
been lost, 74 of them in Fernie.
A territory of 100 square miles is a
seething mass of flames. Through it
are scattered hundreds of lumbermen
ahd prospectors, so that the actual loss
of life will not be known for days.
The properties of the Canadian Pa­
cific and Great Northern railways are
destroyed, the bridges and rolling stock
burned so that it is impossible to enter
or leave the burning area.
There is no possibility of estimating
the loss of lifei and property which will
result, for the flames are driven by a
half gale, making it impossible to put
up a fight against their advance.
The conflagration is the greatest
which has ever reached Canada and
ranks only with the San Frtmcisco dis­
aster.
For the past month forest fires have
been raging in the mountains of Elk
river valley country, but they have not
been considered serious.
Saturday
morning a heavy wind sprang up from
the west and early in the afternoon
the flames'appeared over the crest of
the mountains to the west of Fernie.
This ran down the mountain side and
before a fire guard could be organized
had entered the town._____
R EG EN TS G E T BUSY.
C A N ’ T S E LL W OR M Y APPLES.
New Buildings, New Books and New Fruit Inspector Will See Tha t Laws
Teachers Ground Out.
Aré Strictly Enforced.
University of Oregon, Eugene —At
Salem—County Fruit Inspector Arm­
the last meeting of the board of re­ strong states that the state law pro­
gents a frame building to contain six hibiting the marketing of wormy and
or eight rooms, at a cost of $5,000, was
authorised to be' built on nine lots just scaly apples, pears and other fruits,
purchased in FairmounL I t w ill be which wgp not enforced last year-on
used after this year for a shop.
account of the light yield of fruit in
President Campbell was ordered to some sections, will be rigidly enforced
go East immediately to select a pro­
fessor in geology, assistant in econom­
ics, assistant in civil engineering, as­
sistant in psychology and a librarian.
The following new members of the
faculty were elected:
L. R. Alderman, professor of educa­
tion, salary, $1,800; Dr. Hugo-Koeh­
ler, German, salary $1,000; Mrs. Ella
Pennel, assistant in English and assist­
ant dean of women; Dr. R. C. Clark,
assistant in history; Haines Curry, in­
structor in chemistry; Moselle Hair,
asssitant instructor in English litera­
ture; Mabel Cooper and Miriam Van
Waters, assistants in the correspond­
ence school.
The board ordered $10,000 worth of
books for the library; the Mary Spiller
home for girls to be finished and furn­
ished and the library building furnish­
ed. The matter of authorizing an as­
sistant in public speaking was deferred
to some future time.
Open Bids at Klamath.
Klamath Falls—Bids were opened
recently for extension of the South
Branch canal of the Klamath project
This work comprises seven miles of
main canal, which will connect the
present canal with the Adams ditch in
the vicinity of Merrill. Two bids were
received for the entire contract, and
other bids were received on schedule
covering portions of the work. The
board of engineers will decide upon
awarding the contract in a few days.
All of the bidders are prepared to rush
work as soon as the contract is let, and
in all probability water for the Adams
system will be carried through the
main canal next year.
H om esteaders Ruled Off.
K lam ath Falls. — Decisions have
been handed down by the United
States land office at Lakeview, in ref­
erence to several contest cases be
tween hom esteaders and those plac­
ing tim ber and stone filings. In each
case the hom esteaders have lost. In
the case of O. B. N ew ton vs. Nell
Boyd-Yaden, hom estead en try was re­
fused, on account of the land being
heavily tim bered and residence not
m aintained. In this case filing had
been made five years ago, and the land
had b?en lived upon by claim ant and
com m utation made, but the paten:
had never been issued.
Railroad A ccidents in Ju n e.
Salem.—A cording to reports re­
ceived at the office of the railroad
com m ission at Salem, four persons
were killed by the railroads during
the m onth of June in this state. No
passengers or em ployes were in the
num ber. T hirteen passengers were in­
jured, one trainm an, one yardman, two
o ther employes, and one o ther per
son. One Dassenger train was derailed,
F L E E T P A S S E S 1 U T U IL IA .
two freight trains were derailed.
T here was one collision befween pas­
Natives Gaze on Great Battleships at senger train and one collision between
a passenger train and a freight train
Close Range.
Suvia, Fiji Islands, Aug. 4.—The T he sum m ary of accidents for June
is com paratively-low .--------
United States Atlantic fleet at 8 p. m.
Saturday was in latitude 15:43 south,
longitude 17:24 west, being distant
from Auckland 1,500 miles. At 6:30
o’clock in the morning the fleet chang­
ed its formation from line of squadron
to single column, and at 7 o’clock
passed the end of eastern end of Tutu-
ilia island, Samoa, and steamed close
in along the coast, giving the people of
the island an excellent view of the
ships.
The station ship Annapolis passed
close to the fleet off Pago Pago. The
usual honors were rendered.
At 9 o’clock the fleet resumed its
course for Auckland in line of squadn n
formation. It had ¿educed its speed
to nine knots. The weather is fine,
though hot. The collier Ajax arrived
at Suvia today.___________
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Dutch Mail is Barted Out.
Willemstad, Aug. 4.—The Dutch
cruiser Gelderland arrived here today
from La Guira, Venezuela. Her com­
mander declares that he sent a boat
ashore at La Guira with an officer and
was refused communication with the
shore. The authorities there, he says,
declined to accept the letter bags and
an official communication to the Ger­
man minister who is in charge of Dutch
interests in Caracas. He reports also
that Venezuela is preparing her forces
for a defense of the country.
It is
believed Holland will take some action.
T ea ch ers' Institute Dates.
Salem__The following dates for an
anal teachers’ institutes have been set:
Coos county, M yrtle Point, August 18.
19, 20 and 21; Wallawo county, Enter
prise, August 26, 27 and 28; Wasco
county. The Dalles. October 6. 7 and 8:
Columbia conntv, Rainier, October 6. 7
and 8; Washington county. October 12
13 and 14; Polk county, Dallas, Octo­
ber 14. 15 and 16; Klamath county.
Klamath Falls, October 21, 22, 23 and
24.
Bandon B ooklets O ut Soon.
Bandon—The booklets and other lit­
erature ordered by the Bandon Com­
mercial club will be ready for delivery
about August 20. C. H. Warren,
manager of the Warren Publicity com­
pany, of Portland, was asked to help
raise the necessary funds. Mr. War­
ren and the committee succeeded in
raising more than was needed and the
Commercial club has decided to double
the order to 10,000 booklets.
Rich Mineral in C urry.
•
Bandon—A mining expert, B. C.
Merrill, who has been prospecting in
Curry county, has gone to San Fran­
cisco, but will return about August 1
with a force of men to work on two
veins of mineral, one of which he dis­
covered himself. He says the mineral
prospects of Curry county are extreme­
Forced to Run Gauntlet.
ly promising and he expects it to de­
Deadwood, S. D., Aug. 4.—Accused velop into a great mining country.
of wife beating on the public streets,
New Lum ber Y ards at' Vale.
George Corey, of Terry, a small mining
camp near here, almost lost his life to­
Vale—The Vale Lumber company
day at the hands of a mob. Corey had has finished putting in lumber yards at
been arrested and placed in jail. A this place. The company is composed
mob quickly formed and broke into the of parties from Union, who have mills
jail. The man was taken to the high­ and enough timber to last them 50
way, where he was forced to run a years, at the present rate of cutting.
gauntlet of men with blacksnake whips. It ia a strong company and will be a
Many men were in favor of lynching valuable addition to Vale’s business
him, but the women prevented this.
enterprises.
Die of Heat in Mine.
Virginia City, Nev., Aug. 4.—Half
a mile beneath the surface of the earth
and 8,000 feet from the mouth of the
Sutro tunnel, C. Pucillini was discover­
ed dead this afternoon with his four
Nan Patterson has been expelled mules, killed by the heat in the tun­
nel’s depths.
from Pittsbrug.
Bandon Starts Publicity Campaign.
Bandon—This city has raised a pub­
licity fund and will exploit the rich re­
sources of the CoquiUe river valley
country—coal, timber, agricultural,
etc.. The commercial body and other
representative citizens donated liberal­
ly to the booster fund.
this year.
The yield is abundant and there is
no reason, declares the inspector, for
any grower to bring bad fruit to mar­
ket. Mr. Armstrong states that the
movement will be state-wide, under
the direction of the state horticultur­
ist, W. K. Newell, of Portland, and
the district commissioners.
S A L E M F IN D S N EW C H E R R Y .
Cross
Between Bing and Lambert
Attracts Attention.
Salem.—Salem tcherrygrow ers are
all agog over the discovery of a new
variety th at prom ises to be m ore val­
uable than any of the o th er stable
kinds. T he new cherry is known as
the Kalich Giant. I t is a cross betw een
the L am bert and Bing and was origi­
nated by a man nam ed Kalich at
W oodlawn, P ortland. It • is larger
than either the Bing or L am bert and
in color is betw een the two. It is
expected to prove very valuable on
account of ripening after the other
leading varieties have disappeared
S T A R T E D F R O M B R U S H FIR E.
from the m arket.
A display of the new cherries in a Destruction of Fernie Said to Have
store window created widespread in­
Cost Number of Lives.
terest here today.
\
_
Vancouver. B. C., Aug. 3.—T he city
Inventory Normal Property.
of Fernie was nearly all burned S at­
Sa em- At a meeting of the execu­ urday night by fire w hich caught
tive committee of the normal school from a bush 'fire which had raged
board of regents, Secretary C. L. Starr all the afternoon am ong the tim ber
the opposite side of Elk river from
was authorized to go to Drain and take on
the city. T he sawmill plant of the
an inventory of the property there be­ Elk River Lum ber com pany was the
longing to the state. This step was first to catch in the city of Fernie,
taken in order that the board of re­ and from there the fire spread to the
gents and legislature may know what main offices of the Crows N est Coal
is there belonging to the state and the company. Inside of an hour hun­
exact situation.
President A. L. dreds of cottages of m iners had been
Briggs has also given notice of his burned and the main business sec­
resignation.
I t is not known where tions of the city were swept away.
Fernie has a population of about
Professor Briggs will go from the 5000.
and tw o-thirds of the people
Draiq school.
are homeless. O ne or tw o deaths oc­
curred during the fire. Special trains
Will Drain Union Lands.
arc being rushed from nearly all
La Grande:—The board of regents of towns to assist the hom eless people.
the Oregon Agricultural college held a T he total loss is said to be about
meeting at Union last week, and steps $ 2,000 000 .
.vere taken to introdnee scientific drain
ng in this valley, where the lowlands
HEAT KILLS O FF BABIES.
are now worthless, due to excess of
rainfall. Estimates will be invited on
draining and tiling 100 acres located G reat Increase in July Death Rate
O ver F o rm er Y eare.
at the experiment farm, near Union,
and will thus introduce into this valley
Chicago, Aug. 3.—E norm ous in­
the first attem pt at draining wet lands crease in the death rate am ong ba­
on scientific plans.
bies last week put city health officials
on the anxious seat, ,and unless the
w eather turps cooler a still higher
. May Rebuilt Woolen Mill.
Albany—Jacobs Bros., owners of point is expected in the weeks lo
the Oregon City woolen mills, are con­ come.
A total of 206 children under 1 year
sidering a plan of rebuilding the old of age—an average of m ore than 29
woolen mill plant in Albany. They a dav—died, according to the statis­
were here recently inspecting the Bite tics of the departm ent. In the 22 pre­
of the old mill, which was destroyed ceding days of the m onth the average
by fire in 1904, and announced that rate was 18 babies. In com parison
they would rebuild the plant and estab­ with this total of 206 is an average
lish a big mill here if local capital of 1 Ct for the week ending August
would take an interest in the enter­ 3 of last year and 139 for the week
ending August 4, 1906.
prise.
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An official explanation of the in­
crease vrill p ro bably he made' public
tom orrow , but, generally speaking,
P O R TLA N D M A R K ETS.
lack of proper care during the hot
Wheat—Club, 86c; red Russian, 84c; w eather was given today as the cause.
bluestem, 88c; valley, 86c.
Growing T oo Many Hops.
Barley—Feed, $23.50 per ton ; roll­
ed, $26(327 ;, brewing, $26.
New York. Aug. -3.—Baron Louis
Oats—No. 1 white, $26.50 per ton; von H orst of Coburg, Germ any, who
has large hop interests in California,
gray, $26.
Hay—Timothy, Willamette valley, was a passenger on the steam er St
$14®15 per ton; Willamette valley, Paul, which arrived here tonight.
Speaking of the situation in the in­
ordinary, $12; Eastern Oregon, $17.50; dustry.
he said th at th e 'tro u b le is
mixed, $15; alfalfa, $12; alfalfa, overproduction
and that as a result
meal, $20.
the small hop farm er has been in se­
Fruits—Cherries, 2(310c per lb.; vere straits during the past two yearsi
apricots, $1 per crate; Oregon Alex­ T he prohibition m ovem ent in the
ander peaches, 50®76c per box ; prunes, south and west and the liccgs<nK bill
$1(31.25 per crate; Bartlett pears, in England and Germ any have cut
down the demand, he says, with the
$1.75 per box; plums, 90c per box.
Berries — Raspberries, $1.10 per result th at there has been a falling
crate; Loganberries, 85c® $1 per crate; in prices.
black caps, $2.25.
Pettlbone Cannot Liv«.
. Melons—Cantaloupes, $2.50®3 per
Denver, Col., Aug. 3.—An dperation
crate; watermelons, l> i@ l^ c per
perform ed today at St.' Joseph’s hos­
pound.
Potatoes—New Oregon, $1.25®1.50 pital, in this city, on George A. Petti-
per 100 pounds; old Oregon, 50c per bone, form erly a m em ber of the execu
hundred pounds.
tive board of the W estern Federation
Vegetables — Turnips, $1.50 per of Miners, showed that he is suffer­
sack; carrots, $1.75 per sack; pars­ ing from cancer, and the physicians
nips, $1.75 per sack; beets, $1.50 per in attendance agreed th at his life
sack ; beans, 7c per pound ; cabbage, could not be saved. P ettibone be­
2c per pound ; corn, 80c per dozen ; came sick while in prison in Idaho
cucumbers, $1,00 per box; lettuce, aw aiting his trial for alleged complic­
head, 16c per dozen; parsley, 15c per ity in the m urder of form er Governor
dozen; peas, 4c per pound; peppers, Frank Steunenberg, which resulted in
10c per pound; radishes. 12He per his acquittal.
dozen ; rhubarb, l®2c per pound ; spin-
F rance F a c e t G reat S trike.
aeh, 2c per pound ; tomatoes, Oregon,
Pari*. Aug. 3.—A trem endous strike
$1(31.10 per crate; celery, $1.25 per
dozen; artichokes, 75c per dozen.
is brew ing upon the French n ation­
Butter—Extra, 25c per pound; fan­ alized railroads, according to present
cy, 24c; choice, 20c; store, 16c.
indications. Governm ent acquisition
Eggs—Oregon, candled, 24(324 Xc. ''t the W estern railway. »n addition to
Poultry—Mixed chickens, 12 J^c per ♦ho mnnv line# it alreadv held,
pound; fancy hens, 18®13%c\ roost­ brought m atters *o a crisis. It added
ers, 9(310c; springs, 19®20c; ducks, immensely to the strength of the
old, 12c; spring, 14c; geese, old, 8c; governm ent-em ployed railroad men.
goslings, 10(31 le; turkeys, old, 18® On the ground that living expense»
have increased they adopted resolu­
19c; young, 20(324c.
Veal—Bxtra, 8®8>4c per pound; or­ tions calling for revision of the scale.
dinary, 7(37 He; heavy, 6c.
C ro ss Land by Balloon.
Pork—Fancy, 70)7He per pound; or­
rH
e
ig
o . Aug. 3.—A transcontinen-
dinary, 6c; large, 5c.
‘->1 b'Moon race, starting from either
Mutton—Fancy, 7%(39c.
Hops—1907, prime and choice, 4H T os Angel*# or San Francisco with
i-o A »Untie seaboard as the objective
(36e; olds, 2&2He; contracts 9® 10c. point,
planned by the F ed­
•Wool—Eastern Oregon average best, eration is of being
Am erican 'Aeronauts, ac­
10®16c, according to shrinkage; val­ cording to announcem ents made by
ley, 16®l6J4e; mohair, choice, 18® the board of directors of the organi­
18He per pound.
zation here tonight.
LEAVE IT TO JAPAN
Hill Lines Abandon Ocean Trade
to Nippon Une.
NEED OF WISE LEGISLATION F ELT
Hill Says Laws Tha t Halp Alone Will
Make American Ocean Carry­
ing Trade Poesible.
St. Paul,- Minn., Aug. l.—The an-
nouncenveut (bat the H ill lines have
abandoned the m arine portion of their
share in the trade with Japan and
China, while retaining affiliation w ith
Japanese steam ship lines, cajuc as a
shock to m any people of the N o rth ­
west. According to the chairm an of
the board, Janies J. H ill of the G reat
N orthern, it was to be expected.
“ W hy,” exclaimed Mr. Hill, "our
Pacific trade lias been gone for a year.
A s.long as 15 m onths ago I told them
what was com ing.”
Asked if the action of the Am erican
trans-continentai roads in w ithdraw ­
ing from the Pacific carrying trade
was due to resentm ent at the action
of the interstate com m erce com m is­
sion, Mr. Hill replied:
"R esentm ent, no. T he commission
cannot be blam ed for enforcing the
law. The Pacific trade was given up
because it did not pay. America to ­
day has no flag on the high seas, o r
m ight as well not have, for we cannot
com pete with any o th er country, and
m ust hand the load over to anybody
th at asks for it. The only w a y -fo r
us to continue in the Pacific trade
would be for the railroads to own
their own steam ers and run them at
a heavy loss.
“W e are not a seafaring nation. W e
have no sailors, though under th e
law Am ericans must constitute two-
thirds or three-fourths o f the crews.
W h at we m ust have to m ake a n .
ocean-carrying trade posible is not
subsidies, but intelligent legislation,
legislation th at helps instead of hin­
ders.”
L A B O R W AR S E R IO U S .
France Making Supreme Effort to
Cope With Situation.
Paris, Aug 1.—The labor war be­
came extrem ely serious this afternoon
when the governm ent announced its
determ ination to arrest the leaders
of the General Federation of Labor,
and this announcem ent was followed
by a call from the federation for a
general strike of the m asons and type­
setters.
T he m asons are divided,
about half having quit work.
T he tynesetters have been draw n
into the trouble by an effort of the
leaders to tie up press utterances
which have ben unfavorable to them.
The strike leader# believe they can
get along b etter w ithout the papers.
The governm ent in its decision to
arrest the leaders of the federation,
holds the organization responsible for
the outbreak T hursday at Vigneux
and other labor riots.
Labor leaders say they are prepared
to fight and a great industrial up­
heaval is threatened.
Governm ent officials explained th at
the typesetters are working under an
agreem ent and cannot strike w ithout
breaking it.
8 U L T A N G R A N T S L IB E R T Y .
New Constitution to be Put Into Effect
Without Delay.
C onstantinople. Aug. 1.—An offi­
cial com m unication issued yesterday
announces the form ation of a special
council to nut the constitution in force
immediately. The council is com ­
posed of Kiamcl Pasha and the m in­
isters of foreign affairs and interior,
the president of the state council
and the legal adviser to the porte.
The sultan has decided shortly to
issue a rescript consecrating the con­
stitution.
The leaders of Young T urkey are
working m ethodically to insure the
success of the new regime. T hey are
devoting their efforts in the first
place to getting the finances of the
country in order and to the regular
paym ent of officials.
Find Cache of Bombs.
El Paso, Texas. Aug. 1.—Sixty
bombs sntipposed to be the ones re­
ferred to in the correspondence in­
troduced as evidence in the trial of
the alleged reyolutiom sts here, were
discovered in a cache yesterday sbmit
four miles beyond the Rio Grande
river from the city limits of El Paso.
The cache was located near the point
where the corners of New Mexico,
Texas and Mexico touch. The bombs
were made of tom ato cans, carefully
packed with scrap iron and three
sticks of dynam ite, properly primed
with fuse and percussion caps.
Find Wook for Woman.
New York, Aug. 1.—T hirteen wo­
men. as a com m ittee of the W om en's
League of the St->te of New York,
began a crusade Thursday, which they
hope will give em ploym ent to 75,000
"nem oloyed women by August 15.
The leaguers, th rough an appeal sent
to business men throughout the state.
!»sk that as many of the arm y of
the unem nloyrd a« oossihle be taken
back bv "P rosperity day,” August 15. *
More than a dozen firms have agreed
to g ve em ploym ent to women.
Taks Up Oil Case.
Chicago. Acg. 1.—U nited States
D istrict A ttorney Sims announced
vestrrday th at the petition for the re ­
hearing of the Standard Oil cate be­
fore the U nited States circuit court
would be file d ' within the next ten
days. The petition will ask for a re­
hearing of the argum ent in the case
in the hone fhat the circuit court can
be induced to change its reversal of
the *29,00,000 fine imposed by Judge
Landil on the Standard.